When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
Tag: Plato
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Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
Man…is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.